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by laingc 10y ago
And I'm not the only resident of Germany who wishes that we would follow Britain's example. I likely have a biased sample, but amongst my colleagues and friends, I don't know anyone who wants further European integration, and
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That's not a natural monopoly. The capital costs are nowhere near on the order of magnitude required to block new VC-backed companies from entering the market. Your comparison to utilities aptly demonstrates this point: to introduce a
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So, we're currently talking at cross purposes, and I'm not convinced that I'm really adding much to this discussion by furthering it. However, to clear up any confusion between us, if your point is that Scotland favours a mor
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I don't think it's unnecessarily pedantic to ask people to refrain from using the word "liberal" in the American sense when referring to countries in which the original sense of the word is retained. When it comes to reg
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When I read HN, I sometimes feel that I must be the only person in the world who really liked my PhD. Doing one was by far the best life choice I have ever made. It not not gave me much practical knowledge that has formed the bedrock of my
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The phrase "PAM Module" would be expressed in full as "Pluggable Authentication Module Module".
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Would I be correct in assuming that you're taking inspiration and direction from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History here? For those who don't know, Dan does a fantastic history podcast [0], and a pet fascination of his is explorin
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Same for me, although there is some slowdown compared to iOS 7. I am extremely impressed with the longevity of Apple phones in general, and my 5 in particular.
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> I've actually come to think that the best languages are general-purpose languages and you should just use one language (Scala) for everything. I disagree very strongly with this. My original background is in scientific programming
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> At work, we use Python as our interpreted language & Nim as our fast, strongly-typed, compiled language. You most likely didn't mean to, but your sentence implies that Python is not strongly typed.
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"Having had no idea what made thiel hate gawker so much" How about when they publicly outed him as gay, when he wasn't out to most of the general public? Source, but don't visit it, in case you give those parasites a cou
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To me, this is about "mathematical maturity". My observation is that many programmers, especially those who have come of age by working in startups, tend to value ability and sometimes experience over formal education. This is a r
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I'd just like to draw attention to this comment: > The author seems new to webdesign. The author of the post is Terry Tao, one of the greatest living mathematicians and recipient of the Fields medal. I imagine that he may indeed be